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| Amicus Attorney III | Case
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If you're running Windows 95/NT and looking for a true 32-bit case management program, you now have a new option: Amicus Attorney III. Amicus Attorney III offers more than just a 32bit environment -- new features and subtle improvements can be found throughout this latest upgrade. One of the best new features is full HotSync integration with 3Com's PalmPilot. Now you can enter your appointments, contacts and to-dos in Amicus III and have them all linked to your PalmPilot (or vice versa). HotSync will handle the synchronization. Amicus Attorney III also features new document assembly functions. For example, when you generate a document, you can now generate a document for a single contact on a file, for all contacts on a file or for selected contacts on a file. After you generate the document in either Word or WordPerfect, a dialog box appears asking if you want to save the document and attach it to the Documents folder in Amicus. You also have the option of not saving or saving without attaching. Other document assembly enhancements include new master documents for printing the Files Index in various formats; no limit on the number of parties or party-related fields you can use in a document; new fields that list the lawyers associated with each file, contact, event or entry; and new fields for the firm's name, address and telephone number (entered in a new set-up screen). You can also now add e-mail or Web site addresses to the e-mail/other slot on a contact card. However, you are limited to either an e-mail address or a Web site address on each of the office, home or other contact cards (so you get a total of three slots to use). This means that if one of your contacts has business e-mail and Web site addresses as well as personal e-mail and Web site addresses, you will not be able to list all four on the contact card. In addition, if you insert an e-mail address, you no longer can list an alternate phone number, such as a mobile or beeper number. Of course, you can always list these in the Notes section. If you do list an e-mail or Web site address, double-clicking it in the contact card will automatically start your Internet software. Amicus' calendar is now multimedia. It will play music or a recorded message to remind you when you have an appointment. You have the option of using your own recorded message (must be in .WAV format). There is also a new appointments list that shows appointments for the day in a list view. Amicus Attorney III features new calendar reports that let you print lists of appointments, to-dos or a combination thereof for a specific day or week. These look much nicer than the standard calendar print-outs, but I did have some trouble generating them because the macros for this in WordPerfect 8 didn't always work correctly. In time sheets, statistics are now carried forward from one year to the next. There is also a new statistics set-up interface for specifying how much time you've already accumulated at the time you start using Amicus. A link has been added to Legalmaster for time-keeping purposes. Other minor improvements include a reply button for "sticky" messages, automatic searches for duplicate contacts and a new, Windows Explorer-like dialog box for setting up activity codes and master documents. The standard price of Amicus Attorney III is $299, and upgrades are $149. If you have the Corel WordPerfect 8 Legal Suite with Amicus Attorney 2.8, you can upgrade for $99. |
Gavel & Gown Software $299 Reviewed by Richard C. Belthoff, partner, Grier, Belthoff & Furr, Charlotte, N.C. PROS CONS VERDICT |
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